Less than a week before South Carolina's Republican primary, Ron Paul is currently polling third behind Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. He's risen six percentage points in the last seven days according to PPP, and now he has sewn up the crucial "Fiscally Conservative Pimp" vote. Dennis Hof, who owns Nevada's Moonlite Bunny Ranch, tells CNN, "If a client comes into the Bunny Ranch and says 'I'm pimpin for Paul,' they're gonna have a really good time." Presumably this refers to the sense of purpose one feels by being civically-minded shortly after expensive, soul-shattering coitus. more ›

Authorities have confirmed that the remains found earlier in the week in a dense thicket in Oak Beach were those of Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old prostitute from New Jersey who was last seen in May of 2010. Long Island police are also asserting the theory that Gilbert's death is unrelated to the other remains found on Gilgo State Beach. "There's a small sense of peace in that she's no longer suffering," Gilbert's aunt told Newsday. Gilbert's body was spotted around a quarter mile from where her belongings were found. more ›

When an inside trading scandal is as puny as the one against Winnie "The Poohster" Jiau (hedge funds paid her $200K for tips, which is how much Lloyd Blankfein's iPad case cost) it's only natural to seize on the more titillating aspects of the case, like how a witness against her somehow testified about his bad mushroom trip. Totally told you to stay away from those purple ones bro! more ›

It has been nearly six months since police began uncovering bodies of dead prostitutes on Long Island's Gilgo State Beach and with the police seemingly no closer to catching the killer (or killers) working girls in the area are understandably still taking precautions. Johns of New York, please remember to ask your sex workers for good references—they may come in handy down the road! more ›

While the police continue to sort out the links between the remains found on Gilgo Beach, the Post reports that the NYPD is treating two of their own as possible suspects in the strangling deaths of four prostitutes. One resigned in the 90s after an investigation found that he "spent time pursuing hookers" and paid "down-and-out-women for sex while he was supposed to be on patrol," while the other continues police work, but was stripped of his badge and gun and relegated to desk duty after "he allegedly assaulted a prostitute and got arrested during a sting operation." more ›

They say it's hard out there for a pimp, but it seems like its much harder for a prostitute these days: two Craigslist prostitutes were attacked and robbed by the same man in separate incidents in the past week. The attacks took place at the upscale Roosevelt and Wellington hotels; both victims fought their attacker, and one was slashed with a knife, while the other was put into a choke hold and left unconscious by the robber. more ›

Yesterday officials told the family of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert it might take them between two weeks to three months to determine if she was the fifth body they had found near Gilgo State Beach. Erm, make that 24 hours. "The investigation into Shannan Gilbert's disappearance will continue," police said in a statement today, because the body they found Tuesday evening ain't her. more ›

Last December, while looking for the body of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert, police discovered four bodies in burlap sacks on Gilgo State Beach. None of the bodies turned out to be Gilbert but they did all turn out to be missing hookers who frequented sites like Craigslist for their johns. Yesterday police returned to the beach to look for Gilbert again and sadly they found a fifth body about a mile east from the others. more ›

"Chica Chica" cards, which are like baseball cards of prostitutes, have been handed out all around Queens for years, but an increase in their circulation lately has caused some politicians to call for action to be taken. "Is this going to eliminate prostitution? It's not. It's the first step toward improving the quality of life on Roosevelt Ave," said Queens Democratic Sen. Jose Peralta, who wants to make it illegal to sell them. more ›

A Morris Park man who was arrested and accused of raping a prostitute may have a long history of abuse against ladies of the night. Michael Fishbein is on trial for the alleged torture, beating and rape of a 27-year-old prostitute at the end of last month. When she met him at his apartment at 837 Neill Avenue, he held a box cutter to her and allegedly said, “You’re not leaving. You’re going to take your clothes off or I’m going to cut them off. I’ll kill you.” more ›

The Woodbridge township just doesn't know how to party. Police have charged Stanley P. Misiuk with promoting prostitution, claiming he provided members of the Avenel-Colonia First Aid Squad with strippers at their crazy late-night parties—some willing to go the extra mile for some extra cash. more ›

The "obese, hooker-happy" former Port Authority union president who admitted in court earlier this week to embezzling over $300,000 from his union is planning on retiring—and may still be eligible for a disability pension, even if he is convicted. Daniel Hughes retired in January as president of the local Field Supervisors Association, and went on sick leave due to poor health and weight reduction surgery. Hughes earned just under $100,000 a year at his job, not counting the money he stole during a five-year period. One anonymous source told the Post, "There’s no question in my mind that this guy will file for a disability pension. I’d be very surprised if he didn’t." more ›

The former president of a Port Authority union admitted in court yesterday that he embezzled over $300,000 in order to pay for hookers and casino sprees. Daniel Hughes, 49, the former head of the Field Supervisor Association, Local 111-S, had been funneling cash from his union via the union's ATM card and personal checks since 2005, in order to, as the Post so lovingly puts it, "feed his carnal and gastronomic appetites." more ›

Eight members and associates of the Bloods have been arrested and charged with running a series of sex trafficking rings, some involving girls recruited from junior high schools. Four distinct operations around Bushwick, Brownsville and East New York were uncovered by Brooklyn prosecutors, including two run by alleged ringleader Abking Wilcox, who kept the working girls at his apartment: "He kept the girls prisoner in his house and if they didn't make the $500 minimum [a day] he beat them," one investigator told the Post. more ›

In retrospect, Jane's Addiction's early-'90s power ballad "Whores" ("I love them whores 'cuz they never judge you") seems as if it was destined to be Eliot Spitzer's theme song. We all knew the Luv Gov enjoyed his sexytime with the prostitutes, but wow: According to Peter Elkind's book "Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer," Spitzer once summoned three prostitutes, one after the other, in a single day. The book isn't supposed to go on sale until next week, but the Post obtained a copy, and here's one salacious excerpt: more ›

In July 2008, the Vice Enforcement Squad raided Big Daddy Lou's Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street, which was ranked as the best of all strip clubs in the world by AskMen.com. Prosecutors say it was so beloved because the club offered much more than erotic dancing to its upscale clientele, including on-site cocaine sales, and private rooms with beds for $250 an hour (plus whatever customers gave "dancers" behind closed doors). During the raid, police arrested some dancers, including porn star Alexia Moore, on alleged prostitution charges, as well as staff members and club owner Louis Posner, a lawyer who started a voter reform advocacy group after the 2000 election. more ›

Poor Tanya Hollander. When the 36-year-old holistic health counselor tried to make a little extra money booking illicit rendezvous for the Emperors Club escort service, she had no idea she'd end up tarred for life, thanks to former Governor Eliot Spitzer's penchant for prostitutes. Now even the Buddhists don't want anything to do with her! Catskills paper The Phoenicia Times reports that Nena Thurman, wife of Robert and mother of Uma, unwittingly hired Hollander to help manage the family's New Age retreat center last summer. And Nena doesn't seem inclined to let this particular sentient being escape her nasty karma; she tells the paper, "We’re extremely troubled to learn of her problems only now, and especially troubled that she withheld what’s clearly pertinent information about her background. Clearly, had we been aware, we might have hired someone else." more ›

A state judge has ruled that a 77-year-old Bay Ridge tax lawyer must pay back taxes after wrongfully deducting more than $300,000 for prostitutes, porn, sex toys and erotic massages. After the verdict, the defendant William Halby told the Post, "I live a solitary life. I have no social life. I needed that release." So he dutifully documented each liaison in a notebook titled "Tax Journal," in case he ever got audited. Turns out that in 2002 alone, Halby deducted $111,364 for "therapeutic sex" and massages "to relieve osteoarthritis and enhance erectile function through frequent orgasm." He argued that the write-offs were necessary medical expenses. But because "significant portions" of his sex therapy was, you know, illegal, they can't be written off. The state auditor also argued that "in addition to being illegal in New York State, these expenses are not substantiated with receipts." more ›

The alleged tryst that Governor Spitzer had with a $4,300 hooker took place on the evening of February 13 in Washington, D.C. But before the meeting, Spitzer had appearances in Rochester, Buffalo and Batavia, at the Batavia VA Medical Center. more ›

Some people are reacting to Hookergate with shock and dismay. Others are handling it with Photoshop. Here are a few of our favorite submissions-- send us yours. more ›